If I had one religion
It would surely be a love song in the distance, a soft melody
If I had one request granted after I'm gone
I would ask my creator turn the radio on
Turn the radio on..[Outro]

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About “Radio”

“Radio” is a song from Emily’s The Seven EP with a vintage sound written in tribute to the music of artists who came before her. It also holds the distinction of being the song that took her the longest time to complete. Emily told NPR:

“There’s a song on my EP called ‘Radio’ and I had the foundation for it that I started singing on the subway and I just couldn’t come up with the rest! It was the melody and it took me like 7 years later to finish that song. It was either laziness on my part or the spirit wasn’t ready to born. I don’t know. I’ll go with #2.”

What have the artists said about the song?

(In an interview with SoGutsy):

“It took me like seven years to write “Radio.” I started when I was around 16 and I had this hook and I couldn’t come up with the rest of it. In my household, when I was a kid, my parents were musicians and we didn’t really have like a culture that we celebrated because everyone was from different backgrounds. We didn’t have a set religion. Everyone was very spiritual, but I would go to my parents’ shows and that was like going to church. They would just make people feel certain ways and it was very therapeutic, so that’s where that idea came from. Eventually years later, when I met Jeremy, the rest came. I was so thankful for that because that sums up how I feel about life.”- E.K.